OT: A fun quiz: Where's your ideal place to live?

[IDAwHOa]

Monterey, California

Yeah, sure, steal the one that I want!!!

[skh]

Portland, Oregon. Yes, I've been there and I liked it.

Sonja

[Celtoid]

I just took the quiz and it gave me choices that seem pretty awful to me.
So I'm going to Monterey anyhow. I went to grad school there and fell in love with the place...but could never afford to live there now. :roll:

[WyoBadger]

Mine were mostly in Alaska, with a few Montana, Wyoming, and Washington locations thrown in. Interesting. I've never been to Alaska. Any Chiffers up there? I might need a place to stay...<rubs chin whiskers thoughtfully>...

[blackhawk]

Any small village in west Cork, Ireland (Clonakilty would be perfect). Barring that, I'd like to live in Sundance, Wyoming.

[Parcour25]

Cool, I got Boulder, Colorado and Sausalito, California... Wanted lots of single women, no drummers and no Aussies. Plus great flyfishing and restaurants... But wait, that's where I already live 1/2 year in each place.

Lucky me!

[markv]

[quote="Walden
...I think if I were going to relocate somewhere ideal, I'd look for:

(1) Somewhere the roads don't freeze over in the wintertime, and strand everybody. Somewhere the trees don't freeze and knock the power lines out. Somewhere the pipes don't freeze and cut off the water supply. Somewhere it isn't burning hot on a January morning, and a blizzard two hours later.
(2) Somewhere that you don't get blown away in the springtime.
(3) Somewhere that it isn't 116°F and 89% humidity in the summertime.[/quote]

I guess that eliminates Nebraska too. Last night we had a heat index of 120 then a storm front went through and along with touchdown lightning (started a couple grassfires) and an inch or so of rain, the temp dropped to 72. All that was in the space of 30 minutes.

My top five were
1. Asheville NC.
2. Knoxville Tn
3. Greenville SC.
4. Roanoke VA
5. Chatanooga TN.

Apparently I'm supposed to live somewhere that ends in "ville!

Mark V.

[Ailin]

Hampton, Virginia

Actually, I would really like Virginia near the sea, but I would really like Cape Cod with the beach, or at least an inlet, and a sailboat mooring as my backyard in a neighborhood of Celtic musicians. However, the same setting near the Atlantic in VA is probably cheaper and more realistic!

[Redwolf]

I lived in Monterey (well, Pacific Grove) for five years. It is beautiful, but it can also be pretty snooty. Jobs (when you can find them) typically pay far below industry/area standard. I remember asking my boss about that when I lived there and being told "you should just be grateful that you live in beautiful Monterey!" I decided that, pretty as it was, I couldn't eat the view I do enjoy going back for visits (we're only 40 miles up the coast now, on the northern tip of Monterey Bay), but I don't think I'd want to try to live there unless I were independently wealthy!

Santa Cruz isn't significantly cheaper than Monterey, but it's a whole different attitude (Surf City, dude!), and just as pretty (and, while it's not exactly employment mecca, at least the jobs available tend to pay standard or better).

Redwolf

[Mack.Hoover]

quiz or not it's still Grand Junction CO

[Celtoid]

Actually, I lived in Pacific Grove too, and walked everyday into Monterey for school (Monterey Institute). I lived down by the entrance to 17 Mile Drive, and often walked it down to Carmel, another interesting place. Good thing I din't have to make a living then! but then $70 a month was not bad rent either (1974-6) and in those days I did not eat much besides tofu and tuna (not together) because I had to buy only what I could carry. The smell of tall pines overhead and mimosa, the sound and smells of the ocean, the call of the lighthouse when the fog rolled in, the constant deer everywhere, and the smell of earth and flowering iceplant and the monarch butterflies. I din't know anyone but students and it was not a snooty time then. The only money I made was selling Chinese calligraphy in one of the old canneries turned into an art gallery.

We seem to just be talking about the USA though. I dearly love Ireland, especially Connemarra. France in the Dordogne or Provence. Germany around the Mosel Valley. It goes on...there are so many places that I would rather live than here... colder than hell in the winter and delightful during our three week summer.

[Redwolf]

Actually, I lived in Pacific Grove too, and walked everyday into Monterey for school (Monterey Institute). I lived down by the entrance to 17 Mile Drive, and often walked it down to Carmel, another interesting place. Good thing I din't have to make a living then! but then $70 a month was not bad rent either (1974-6) and in those days I did not eat much besides tofu and tuna (not together) because I had to buy only what I could carry. The smell of tall pines overhead and mimosa, the sound and smells of the ocean, the call of the lighthouse when the fog rolled in, the constant deer everywhere, and the smell of earth and flowering iceplant and the monarch butterflies. I din't know anyone but students and it was not a snooty time then. The only money I made was selling Chinese calligraphy in one of the old canneries turned into an art gallery.

Sounds like you didn't live far from where we lived (1985-90). We were on Grove Acre Avenue, just a block from Lighthouse. I used to walk my dog every morning down to Asilomar, then back up along Ocean View to Lover's Point. I'll never forget my first morning there...I went jogging through downtown PG, turned down toward the ocean and came face-to-face with a deer. My first thought was "that's the biggest darned dog I've ever seen!" I jumped straight up in the air and ran one way; he jumped straight up in the air and ran the other way...it wasn't until I'd run about half a block that it occurred to me that big dogs usually don't have antlers!

PG is my favorite of the Monterey Peninsula communities. We probably would have stayed there, if it hadn't been impossible to find a job that paid a reasonable wage. Still is, unfortunately...we've done a bit of job hunting down that way, since it's not a totally unreasonable commute from Santa Cruz, and the few tech jobs available are still paying well below a living wage for this area.

Redwolf

[Loren]

"Cool, I got Boulder, Colorado and Sausalito, California... Wanted lots of single women,"

Mmm, I guess.....well there's plenty if you count all the (very) young girls at CU.

"....no drummers"

That must be Sausalito, there's like a million drummers here in Boulder - Can't walk a hundred yards around here without tripping over a Djembe

Loren

[Celtoid]

Redwolf
I also lived on Grove Acres Avenue, just a bit further down the road from you, about 200 yards. A block from lighthouse would be appartments, and I knew some students who lived there. I rented a small efficiency appartment behind an elderly widdow's garage (basically in her garden).

[cowtime]

I wish they listed cities outside of the united states. oh well. Here's my top 5:

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Johnson City-Kingsport, Tennessee
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Clarksville, Tennessee
Greenville, South Carolina

HEY!!!

Johnson City and Kingsport, TN are within 1 to 1 1/2 hr from me!!